Chapter 262 Capturing Han Sui Alive
Chapter 262 Capturing Han Sui Alive
"Block them!" Kang Cheng shouted loudly to the surrounding cavalry, "Block that cavalry, the enemy chieftain is inside, there will be a great reward for capturing the enemy chieftain!" Kang Cheng didn't care whether he had the authority to issue such an order as a great reward. His only goal now was to capture or kill Han Sui. Even if he didn't get first place in this battle, he could still be ranked second.
Upon hearing the words "enemy chieftain," the grassland cavalry around Kangcheng lost their composure. They were a vassal organization, receiving only a meager organizational fee from their self-governed territory, but that fee was far too little.
Hearing the words "enemy chieftain," everyone knew what it meant. It meant they could receive a large reward and have enough money to bring their families south to immigrate to the autonomous region and enjoy a better life. Although their nomadic identity would cease to exist, what does a nomadic identity matter compared to a better life?
"Charge! Capture Han Sui alive!"
"Capture Han Sui alive!"
In an instant, all the cavalrymen were in an uproar. They shouted slogans to capture Han Sui alive and charged towards the small force of only five or six hundred men.
Like a river flowing into the sea suddenly encountering a huge wave, Han Sui and his cavalry were immediately swept back by thousands of cavalrymen, and not only that, they were also completely scattered.
It's interesting to talk about Han Sui. Even though breaking through the encirclement was such a dangerous task, he was still wearing his unique golden armor. In the darkness and under the moonlight, the reflective golden armor on Han Sui's body immediately gave away his identity, and more cavalrymen surrounded him.
Han Sui's soldiers dwindled in number. It wasn't that they weren't elite or that they weren't fighting hard; it was simply that there were too many enemies around them. One after another, Han Sui's soldiers fell amidst the slashing of countless curved blades, until finally, not a single person remained standing beside Han Sui.
"You." Han Sui drew his sword from his waist. In fact, it had been a long time since he had personally fought on the battlefield. His right hand, which was holding the sword, trembled uncontrollably. He himself did not realize how scared he was at this moment, so scared that his hand holding the sword was trembling.
"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!" Han Sui roared hysterically, using his roar to mask his fear.
However, the surrounding cavalry did not flinch at all; in their eyes, Han Sui was already a dead man.
"Ah!" A scream rang out as Han Sui's head was severed by a cavalryman and then impaled on his scimitar, held upright in the sky. Han Sui was dead.
This guy named An Yu became the luckiest one in this battle. He won the battle against more than a dozen of his companions and successfully took Han Sui's head!
The surrounding cavalry did not engage in any aggressive behavior. In the eyes of these steppe people, the strong should be respected, and those who were content to take the head of the enemy chieftain were heroes and deserved respect.
Moreover, as warriors, they disdain to steal the spoils of war from others; if they did, they themselves, and even their families and tribes, would be unable to hold their heads high on the entire grassland.
"Han Sui is dead! Han Sui is dead!"
Soon, the battlefield was filled with the sound of Han Sui's death. The remaining soldiers of Han Sui's organization lost all will to resist after hearing the news of Han Sui's death. Inspired by the example of the soldiers who surrendered in front of them, they were able to continue fighting.
The remaining Han soldiers on the battlefield slowly dropped their weapons and then squatted on the ground under the escort of the self-governing district's organization team. Anyone who dared to stand in the car at this moment would definitely have their teeth knocked out by a weapon butt.
In this battle, Han Sui's main force was completely wiped out, and not a single Han Sui soldier was able to escape the pursuit of a large number of steppe cavalry.
More than half an hour later, Ma Chao rushed back after receiving the messenger's message. Looking at the battlefield before him, Ma Chao said dejectedly, "Is the battle over already? That Han Sui is utterly useless; he couldn't even break through! He deserves to die!"
Ma Chao maliciously claimed that he had gotten a great deal in this battle, but as the one who was supposed to block him, he hadn't even managed to touch a single hair on the enemy's head. This greatly angered Ma Chao, who had traveled so far and taken such a long detour, only to end up with nothing.
This is just too unfair, but there's nothing we can do. He's just really unlucky. Zhao Yun has been very lenient with him, but his luck is just really bad.
“It’s over now. This time Han Sui is completely finished. His main force was wiped out, and he himself died. It’s said that he didn’t even have a complete corpse,” Pang De said to Ma Chao.
Ma Chao asked Pang De, "Have our casualties been heavy?"
Pang De said, "The cavalry suffered over four hundred casualties, and the infantry only numbered seven hundred, of whom only three hundred were directly killed in action." "I'm referring to the overall numbers, not just the Ma family's organization," Ma Chao emphasized.
Pang De said "Oh," and then said, "The Anxi Independent Division suffered heavy casualties. Han Sui's final cavalry counterattack caused at least two thousand casualties, and with the others, it should not exceed three thousand. The number of those killed should also be less than two thousand. Only the steppe vassal cavalry suffered the most casualties, as they faced the final breakout of Han Sui's elite forces."
"The last-minute counterattack was quite fierce, a fight of life for life. According to the Kangcheng General, Han's soldiers went completely mad in the end. His cavalry suffered more than two thousand casualties in the initial attack, and the casualties in the final battle were also as high as two thousand. Such a casualty ratio is really astonishing." Ma Chao nodded and said, "Those are all foreign races anyway, so let them die."
He said to Pang De, "If we only count the casualties, we annihilated Han Sui's main force with less than 5,000 men. This battle can be described as very well fought. The soldiers under the King of Wei are truly elite. I just don't know how powerful that legendary Tiger Legion is."
If a defensive independent division is already this formidable, the fighting power of the Tiger Legion must be even more astonishing.
Pang De didn't know how to answer this question either, but the Tiger Legion was Chen Er's original fighting force, and it was named after the Tiger Legion. Back then, it had used more than 10,000 men to hold off an attack by a large organization with more than 100,000 men. The Tiger Legion must be even more powerful.
Ma Chao naturally agreed with Pang De's words. Although they seemed somewhat perfunctory, they weren't entirely wrong. The Tiger Legion was the most elite organization among the major organizations in the self-governing region, and it was also the symbol of the self-governing region's organizational teams. It wouldn't be reasonable if they weren't powerful.
“Let’s go see Zhao Yun. With Han Sui dead, Liangzhou is left with only Li Jue and Guo Si in the south,” Pang De said.
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